HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-02-27 PL-SMA-2023-000036 Clare Loprinzi Opposition From: Email Service
To: LPCtestimonv
Subject: Testimony for Leeward Planning
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 7:01:52 PM
Attachments: walua.condo testimony.docx
Aloha
Leeward Planning Department February 27. 2024 testimonies are attached
#3 Strong Opposition to SMA Use application Applicant Phil Tinguely Walua Partners
#2 Strong Opposition to Liliuokalani Trust (PL-RE-2023-000051) (below first testimony.
This is the first time I send in testimony so would like to know it done right by a returned
email from you.
Mahalos Clare
Leeward Planning Department
February 27. 2024
Clare loprinzi Cultural Indigenous Practitioner
Leeward Planning Commissioners
#3 Strong Opposition to SMA Use application Applicant Phil Tinguely Walua Partners
Aloha Kakou
O Clare Loprinzi kou inoa. Noho au Honokohauiki. I am Indigenous Practitioner of over 50 years
that has practiced customary traditional and cultural practices starting with the birth of our
lineal descendants and the practices that keep us alive. I ask you all to read Act 50, that makes
EA and/or EIS mandatory by the laws that protect our customary traditional and cultural
practices and protects our wahipana which is essential for survival of both papahonua ame na
kanaka.The desecration sites, caves and our places of worship is not allowed, let alone the
pollution of our waters. These lands must be protected and not raped or set up with more and
more development. This illegal development violates not only papahonua but now has Hawaii
as the #4 highest in child sex slavery. This is the effect of raping and violating the land our
desecrating our wahipana.
The Hawaiians of this land need land to survive, to be able to grow food using the customary
practices of the Kona Field System which is being done still and heal and grow the next
generations to become healthy in all ways. We have our waters going to golf courses, our feces
waste being dumped in my ahupuaa's kai, golf courses poisoning our waters and dumping a
million gallons of feces in our sacred waters.
The Leeward Planning Commission has kuleana to protect our waters/land/na
wahipana/kanaka. We cannot sit aside and watch this. These developments would have many
other negative consequences already stated by others(traffic/fires etc.
Take the time to read Act 50 and all the other laws that protect papahonua ame na kanaka. We
can not allow this to continue nor should you if you are doing your kuleana. You can read those
that are in support of these developments that will make them all rich (not in aloha) in money
and heva.
Do your due diligence. EAducate yourselves and know we too much do our work to protect.
ACT 50
A Bill for an Act Relating to Environmental Impact Statements.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Hawaii:
ACT 50
H.B. NO. 2895
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that there is a need to clarify that the preparation of
environmental assessments or environmental impact statements should identify and address
effects on Hawaii's culture, and traditional and customary rights. The legislature also finds
that native Hawaiian culture plays a vital role in preserving and advancing the unique quality
of life and the "aloha spirit"in Hawaii.
Articles IX and XII of the state constitution, other state laws, and the courts of the State
impose on government agencies a duty to promote and protect cultural beliefs,practices, and
resources of native Hawaiians as well as other ethnic groups. Moreover, the past failure to
require native Hawaiian cultural impact assessments has resulted in the loss and destruction
of many important cultural resources and has interfered with the exercise of native Hawaiian
culture. The legislature further finds that due consideration of the effects of human activities
on Native
Hawaiian culture and the exercise thereof is necessary to ensure the continued existence,
development, and exercise of native Hawaiian culture.
The purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Require that environmental impact statements include the disclosure of the effects of a
proposed action on the cultural practices of the community and State;and(2)Amend
the definition of"significant effect"to include adverse effects on cultural practices.
(2) SECTION 2. Section 343-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the
definitions of"environmental impact statement"or "statement"and "significant
effect'; to read as follows:
""Environmental impact statement"or "statement"means an informational document
prepared in compliance with the rules adopted under section 343-6 and which discloses the
environmental effects of a proposed action, effects of a proposed action on the economic
[and] welfare, social welfare, and cultural practices of the community and State, effects of the
economic activities arising out of the proposed action, measures proposed to minimize
adverse effects, and alternatives to the action and their environmental effects.
Me ka haahaa Clare loprinzi, cultural indigenous practitioner